'Tis the season for eating, so we're always looking for ways to make our favorite treats a little healthier. Enter this brownie recipe by Rebecca Andexler, author of cooking, baking, and parenting blog A Homemaker's Habitat. Andexler created the dark-chocolate sweets in collaboration with Bush's, which explains their secret nutritious ingredient: black beans. The beans give the brownies an extra healthy fiber boost, and no one ever needs to know your secret.

Ingredients

1 can (15 ounces) Bush's black beans, drained and rinsed

1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

1/4 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup white sugar

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/8 teaspoon kosher salt

2 large eggs

3 tablespoons vegetable oil

1.5 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 each large piece of parchment paper

1/4 cup dark chocolate chips (optional topping)

1/4 cup chopped walnuts (optional topping)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Line 8"x8"x2" baking pan with parchment paper and grease with butter.